it's not so much about that, but rather it's the fact that you'd save a bunch of speculated discussion by just saying the reason rather keeping it silent and thus everyone wasting time wondering or criticizing the choice that Blue made to delete it.

i've observed that blue is so mild in applying the hammer that i think only new people must bother with speculating when they see his intervention. myself, i just think "that guy must have really been a fuck up."

i just switched over to chrome from 10 years of opera (from v10 onwards opera was never as stable as it once was)i don't know how i've lived without extensions like adblock and noscript, quite potent.blues is the only website on my ad whitelist so far, since he's the only webmaster i can think of who gives a shit about what kind of ads he runs.

Verno wrote on Apr 30, 2012, 13:16:I realize people automatically jump to "frivolous" when they hear lawsuit these days but she tried everything else short of physical violence, would you prefer she resort to that?

i know it speaks ill of my capacity for problem solving, but i wish she could have. animals really only understand one language.

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Apr 15, 2012, 14:22:Wow, the trolls are out in full force today. They're not even very subtle.

The reality is that Half-Life completely redefined the genre. It had an intro, it started you without weapons, it introduced other characters that had meaningful dialogue, it had platforming, puzzles more complicated than just "find the red key" and it completely redefined what could be achieved through scripted events. For the time there was nothing like it. Half-Life 2 further cemented Valve's position as the leader of storytelling and immersion in FPS games.

This is just a classic case of people rebelling against popular culture for the sake of it.

mike capps, about 8 months ago, discussing how bulletstorm sold barely 300k units on ALL platforms.

so capps obviously knows the truth, but is deliberately spinning the blame to piracy as usual. that part's not in doubt. what i wonder about is his agenda. marginalizing the pc as a platform? or trying to obfuscate the failure on every front of this game's design, marketing and positioning.

if i had to venture a guess, i'd blame their premium pricing. this game was never meant to be a 60 dollar title. call of duty can get away with that shit, not no-name IP. i can only call on my own experience, and at 40 or 50 this game was weird looking enough that i would have bought into it on release, but 60? no way, and then the word of mouth caught on.

is bioware a business, or isn't it? since when is giving your customer what they want bad business?

they clearly had a business-mentality when they required every other plot element in the game be vetted by the writing team as a whole. why now this baseless auteur attitude, especially with such a colossal fuckup?

at least we can always count on gaming "journalism" to side with the publishers.

Dr. D. Schreber wrote on Apr 6, 2012, 21:56:I used to think it was an idiot fan theory like any other, but there's so much to use for it that it really is like they accidentally made something better and more interesting than what was intended.

ok, so the illusive man represents the indoctrinated part of your mind, up until you kill him. and then rather than that representing your victory in keeping with his theory, he changes the rules: now it's become a trick to make you think you've overcome the indoctrination.. which you aren't even consciously aware of anyway.. he also expertly handles the established fact that prothean VI's can detect indoctrination with "sure, but maybe they're just wrong a lot when you're around." he even digs for meaning in art asset re-use.

that whole video is bizarre cyclical self-justificaiton. he formulated a theory (no doubt because he was looking for it the whole time) and is now wrapping the reality of what happens around it to make it fit, spontaneously changing his own statements on the fly to keep it working. tedious.

the endgame was the most important ten minutes of anything they've done in the past 5 years, and they choked.

they failed so utterly that the only way a large subset of fans can reconcile what they saw is with an idiotic and convoluted "theory" that turns the endgame into an unreliable-narrator-driven metaphore.

i hope casey hudson isn't feeling smugly superior about how no one "gets" his vacuous nerdgasm ending. god, what a fucker.

that's some strong rhetoric. not everyone has the financial capacity to adopt an all or nothing purchasing paradigm for their hobbies.i only buy used games when necessary (older stuff) but that's because i've been lucky to be able to afford such extravagance. life sucks and sometimes people just want to forget for an hour or two. only the affluent need apply?

i really need to stop dicking around and make a character for this game. got it as a gift a little after release (but it was really more like a gift from my friend to himself, since he wants me to play it). i just can't get excited about it.

of course the last mmo i played regularly was the matrix online so what do i know

the american government likes to court future corporate sponsors by drafting a really repugnant piece of anti-citizen, anti-progress legislation every decade or so, to remind them who's looking out for them.

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Dec 22, 2011, 21:04:Normally I like to pick sides when spectating this sort of thing but here I couldn't care less; it's one shitty company suing another shitty company. I suppose I consider EA to be the slightly more shitty company, so I hope it ends up with massive legal bills and huge damages awarded against it.

i've kind of slipped the other way, i hate what i've read of bobby kotick's actions sufficiently to want to see his awful fucking decisions hurt activision. it honestly kind of pisses me off how good MW3 did (how could it not?) and the back patting kotick must have given himself for trying to fuck west/zampella out of their royalties.

Cutter wrote on Dec 17, 2011, 01:04:And PHJF is correct. Compound adverbs and adjectives before a noun are always hyphenated. I always find it funny when I look at a person's resume who claims they're "detail oriented". Deatil oriented, huh?

If you "google" around, you'll find other websites talking about this as well.

The short version is that usage is determined by editorial or stylistic principles. It's just like "solid state" used to be hyphenated, but is no longer commonly seen that way. The hyphen primarily serves as a way to disambiguate the words in this context, not as a hard and fast requirement.

Another example of changing usage would be that Herman Melville originally published his book titled "Moby-Dick" (note the hyphen), but most individuals would no longer consider that correct.

it was seeing this comment at the top that assured me i was missing no conversation of consequence here.

Cutter wrote on Dec 12, 2011, 21:38:So let's see...fans of these sorts of games are clowns like CJ_Parker and some other guy who can't even master basic grammatical capitalization. I think that pretty much tells you all you need to know.

i generally find your "thoughts" unimportant, and this has proven to be no exception. run along, now. i was hoping a grown up would speak up so i could have a conversation.